TextWatcher for more than one EditText

Vikas Patidar picture Vikas Patidar · Nov 26, 2010 · Viewed 74.4k times · Source

I want to implement the TextWatcher interface for more than one EditText fields. Currently I am using :

text1.addTextChangedListener(this);
text2.addTextChangedListener(this);

then overriding the methods in my Activity:

public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {}

public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {}
public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) 
{
 // do some operation on text of text1 field
 // do some operation on text of text2 field 
}

However this is working fine but I'm looking for other ways so that I can explicitly identify that in which EditText field the SoftKeyboard is currently focused.

Answer

Bobs picture Bobs · Dec 9, 2012

Suggested solution in @Sebastian Roth's answer is not one instance of TextWatcher for some EditTexts. It is one class and n instances of that class for n EditTexts.

Each EditText has its own Spannable. TextWatcher's events has this Spannable as s parameter. I check their hashCode (unique Id of each object). myEditText1.getText() returns that Spannable. So if the myEditText1.getText().hashCode() equals with s.hashCode() it means that s belongs to myEditText1

So if you want to have one instance of TextWatcher for some EditTexts you should use this:

private TextWatcher generalTextWatcher = new TextWatcher() {    

    @Override
    public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before,
            int count) {

        if (myEditText1.getText().hashCode() == s.hashCode())
        {
            myEditText1_onTextChanged(s, start, before, count);
        }
        else if (myEditText2.getText().hashCode() == s.hashCode())
        {
            myEditText2_onTextChanged(s, start, before, count);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count,
            int after) {

        if (myEditText1.getText().hashCode() == s.hashCode())
        {
            myEditText1_beforeTextChanged(s, start, count, after);
        }
        else if (myEditText2.getText().hashCode() == s.hashCode())
        {
            myEditText2_beforeTextChanged(s, start, count, after);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
        if (myEditText1.getText().hashCode() == s.hashCode())
        {
            myEditText1_afterTextChanged(s);
        }
        else if (myEditText2.getText().hashCode() == s.hashCode())
        {
            myEditText2_afterTextChanged(s);
        }
    }

};

and

myEditText1.addTextChangedListener(generalTextWatcher);
myEditText2.addTextChangedListener(generalTextWatcher);